{"id":26381,"date":"2026-04-01T10:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=26381"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:59:23","slug":"under-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/under-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" title=\"April 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23f2f2f2&amp;d=april_2026&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=26&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\">In Washington, D.C., Ben Shahn\u2019s murals face an existential crisis. \u201cIt\u2019s like the Taliban destroying the big beautiful Buddhas.\u201d \u2014Abby Shahn<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">By Diane Hudson<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong>Renowned social realist<\/strong> artist <strong>Ben Shahn<\/strong> (1898-1969) has deep roots in Maine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">He taught and lectured at the <strong>Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture<\/strong> seven times between 1954 and 1965, and his daughter, <strong>Abby Shahn<\/strong>, one of Maine\u2019s most revered artists, has been creating here since moving to her studio and home in Solon from NYC in 1969.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mural-crisis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mural-crisis.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mural-crisis-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mural-crisis-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mural Crisis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1507],"class_list":["post-26381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-april-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26412,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381\/revisions\/26412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}